This secret squirrel is a beauty

2015 The Fledge & Co., Katvis Pinot Noir, Western Cape, South Africa (£14.95, Stone, Vine & Sun, 01962-712351, StoneVine.co.uk).

I didn't spot Simon Taylor of Stone, Vine & Sun at last year's Cape Wine expo in Cape Town, but he was definitely there and clearly working very hard! His recent "South Africa: Riding the New Wave" selection of wines is nothing short of inspirational.

We happened to stumble across some of the same wines at this massive biennial event and I am thrilled to report that he has decided to import some of them into the UK for the very first time. Winemaker Leon Coetzee showed me his The Fledge wines from unlabelled sample bottles.

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I actually Instagrammedthis very beauty with the hashtag #secretsquirrel, hoping one day to see it again. Well, "catfish" has arrived and it is a vitally refreshing and intensely rewarding wine, stuffed with wild cherries and parading flair and daring in every molecule.

Buy this wine and also the 2015 The Fledge Syrah (£15.95), a spicy, bright, 13% alcohol stunner, with whiplash tannins and a heavenly seaweedy, black-fruited perfume. Lastly, 2013 Lemberg Lady (£12.95) is a deranged white made from sleek viognier and the quirky Hungarian interloper Hrslevel. Tense, intriguing, fleetingly exotic and then ever so contemplative, this is a wine that will expand your white-wine horizons like no other.

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year (MatthewJukes.com).

Matthew Jukes has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006.

He has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website.

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy. His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.